With elections in Nepal scheduled to begin later this month, the project is not likely to be discussed by the governments anytime soon, a senior power ministry official said.

Among other projects in Nepal, a 750 megawatts (MW) project is to be built on the western part of the country by China's state-owned Three Gorges International Corp, while two Indian companies - GMR Group and Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited - are set to build one 900 MW hydropower plant each, mainly to be exported to India.